Homemade Lemon Cake

I have enjoyed a couple of other of historian David McCullough's books, and think he is a good story teller. This biography, which is ...

Ok, first off, if you are looking for a book about Elvis the man, you are not going to be happy with this. While it is densely researched, ...

On the surface this film, nominated in 9 categories for an Academy Award in 2026, including best casting, tells the story of a gifted but i...

This is comprehensive, meaning that it is long and could have used to be edited down quite a bit, pulling some material out and footnoted, ...

Yes, there are a lot of books about Reagan out there. I haven't read any of them but there are quite a few to choose from. Why did I c...

I read a review of his book before putting it on my library requests, and was intrigued that the author was contending that Gauguin was a m...

I admit, tackling the life and science of Albert Einstein is a gargantuan undertaking. Conveying the magnitude of Einstein’s scientific ac...

The author of this volume, the fourth in his opus on the life and times of Lyndon Johnson, is long winded. The book opens in the final yea...

This is a time limited biography of a woman I had never heard of who had tremendous influence in her time. Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) ...

This is subtitled: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People. Harriet Tubman is one of the ten most famous Americans ever born ...

I had never heard of Frantz Fanon, who died of leukemia at the young age of 36, prior to reading this book. He was born on Martinique in ...

So, why Garfield, you ask? Before read this I would have agreed with you. I did venture to his homestead once when I was in Ohio (which is...

I was not 100% sure that I needed to know more about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life, but it turns out I was wrong about that. When it ...

I very much enjoyed this biography of Samuel Adams, who was born into a prosperous family in 1722 in the city state of Boston. Adams coul...